Scoot McNairy

Actor Scoot McNairy has a big year ahead of him, with roles in three highly anticipated films including Ben Affleck's "Argo," Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land," and opposite Brad Pitt in "Killing Them Softly."

Andrew Dominik’s last movie, 2007’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” was an elegiac deconstruction of the Western. His latest, “Killing Them Softly,” takes the same approach to the gangster film. There’s violence aplenty, but once again Dominik is fascinated by something far ...